ting a new head to the beleaguered agency and favored keeping the SBA independent.The President's announcement lets him avert an embarrassing confrontation with some 1,800 delegates descending on the capital this week for the annual White House Conference on Small Business. It is a victory for small business interests and, for now at least, appears to shelve pressure from conservatives in the administration to dismantle the agency. They have wanted to take away the SBA's lending ability and fold the remaining functions of the agency into the Commerce Department, where the voice of small business might be muffled by more layers of bureaucracy.The new administrator will be announced w
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